A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period ...W. Strahan, 1784 - Biography |
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... languages , polite litera- ture , and the fciences . During his continuance in the univerfity , he acquitted himfelf honourably as a tutor and preacher for preaching and common placing , both in the college and in the uni- verfity ...
... languages , polite litera- ture , and the fciences . During his continuance in the univerfity , he acquitted himfelf honourably as a tutor and preacher for preaching and common placing , both in the college and in the uni- verfity ...
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... language , though in the mean time he did not neglect to make aftro- nomical obfervations , and to compofe various works in that fcience . The cardinal going to Greece foon after , Regiomontanus went to Ferrera , where he continued the ...
... language , though in the mean time he did not neglect to make aftro- nomical obfervations , and to compofe various works in that fcience . The cardinal going to Greece foon after , Regiomontanus went to Ferrera , where he continued the ...
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... languages and philofophy under the jefuits at Cahors , and afterwards divinity in the univerfity of that town , being defigned for the church . He made fo uncommon a progrefs , that at the end of four years he was offered a doctor's ...
... languages and philofophy under the jefuits at Cahors , and afterwards divinity in the univerfity of that town , being defigned for the church . He made fo uncommon a progrefs , that at the end of four years he was offered a doctor's ...
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... language , " fays Voltaire , " and is the author of fome Louis XIV . poetry in French and Italian . He contrived to make 66 one of his Italian pieces pass for Petrarch's but he " could not have made his French verfes pafs for those of ...
... language , " fays Voltaire , " and is the author of fome Louis XIV . poetry in French and Italian . He contrived to make 66 one of his Italian pieces pass for Petrarch's but he " could not have made his French verfes pafs for those of ...
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... languages ; and at his leifure hours applied himfelf to poetry , in which he fucceeded very well . At fourteen , he was fent to Utrecht ; where he ftudied under Grævius and Leufden , perfected himself in the Latin and Oriental tongues ...
... languages ; and at his leifure hours applied himfelf to poetry , in which he fucceeded very well . At fourteen , he was fent to Utrecht ; where he ftudied under Grævius and Leufden , perfected himself in the Latin and Oriental tongues ...
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